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Table 1 Palatable plant biomass, plant species richness, soil water storage, soil organic carbon stock, soil total nitrogen stock, soil total phosphorus stock and soil total potassium stock in relation to plateau pika disturbance (disturbance), site (site) and their interaction.
Table 2 Percentage of bare soil area of the total plot area (35 m ⨯ 35 m) in the presence of plateau pikas. Significance was evaluated using one-way ANOVA with the Tukey post hoc test. Different letters denote significant differences at P <0.05. Presented are the means ±1 standard deviation for the five sites; each site had 10 replicates (n=50).